Dairy – Cheese sector

Examples of treated products: Milk, yoghurt, whey, etc …

STORAGE TANKS

Product description:

  • Storage of liquid or paste-like products
  • Tanks with capacities of up to 300,000 litres are manufactured in our workshops
  • Operating conditions in accordance with customers’ needs: Atmospheric, ultra-clean, and sterile conditions
  • Agitation defined depending on the product’s rheological characteristics (viscosity, density) in order to ensure it is kept homogeneous in the tank

STERILE TANKS

GOAVEC Engineering has been manufacturing sterile tanks for over 30 years and developed its first tanks in collaboration with dairy industrial operators (UHT milk). The technicians of our customer service will support you with the requalification of your apparatuses.

Product description:

  • Aseptic storage of finished products before sterile packaging
  • Tanks with capacities of up to 60,000 litres are manufactured in our workshops
  • Operating conditions in accordance with customers’ needs: Steam/vacuum sterilisation at 3 bar
  • Boilerworks designed and manufactured in accordance with the Pressurised Equipment Directives
  • Optional agitation defined in accordance with the product characteristics (viscosity, density). Shaft passage design in order to limit any risk of bacteriological contamination (double seals with a steam barrier)
  • Specific equipment items developed for cleanability and guaranteeing freedom from contamination

Examples of treated products: UHT milk, dessert creams, etc …

Examples of treated products: Dessert mixes, reconstituted milk, etc …

POWDER TANKS

Product description:

  • Mixing tanks enabling powder to be dispersed in a liquid or viscous phase
  • Agitation mechanism(s) designed for the production of dense mixes with a high dry solids content level
  • Tanks with capacities normally ranging up to 10,000 litres are manufactured in our workshops

POWDER FINISHING TANKS

Product description:

  • Tanks enabling finishing of the mix prepared earlier in the process to be mixed using a triblender, a mixing tank, or another system for incorporating raw materials in order to ensure hydration of the powders and to keep the batch manufactured homogeneous
  • Tanks with capacities normally ranging up to 50,000 litres are manufactured in our workshops
  • Gentle agitation that limits foaming

Examples of treated products: Yoghurts, desserts, reconstituted milk, etc …

Examples of treated products: Cream, yoghurts, fresh pasta, ice cream mix, cheesemaking milk, etc …

MATURATION TANKS

Product description:

  • Specific tanks enabling the maturation of your products to be ensured
  • Tanks with capacities of up to 100,000 litres are manufactured in our workshops
  • Operating conditions in accordance with customers’ needs: Atmospheric, ultra-clean conditions
  • Agitation defined depending on the product’s rheological characteristics (viscosity, density, texture)
  • Specific agitation mechanisms developed and patented for fragile and viscous products: The Viscostar and the Helistar

CRYSTALLISATION TANKS

GOAVEC Engineering, which is the leading manufacturer of this equipment, enjoys the benefit of decades of experience and is the world’s top seller of crystallisation tanks.

Product description:

  • Specific tanks enabling the crystallisation of your products to be ensured
  • Tanks with capacities of up to 50,000 litres are manufactured in our workshops (higher volumes may be envisioned)
  • Operating conditions in accordance with customers’ needs: Atmospheric, ultra-clean conditions
  • Hanging agitation defined depending on the rheological characteristics of the product (the dry solids rate, viscosity, density) enabling a very high level of homogeneousness to be obtained for the crystals.
  • Specific agitation developed and patented for products featuring dry solids and with a high viscosity: Viscostar
  • Specific equipment items developed for cleanability and optimising the performance of the crystallisation tanks

Examples of treated products: Whey, permeates, etc …

Examples of treated products: cheese specialties, …

COTTAGE CHEESE TANKS

Product description:

  • Specific tanks developed for cheesemaking specialities
  • Tanks with capacities normally ranging up to 10,000 litres are manufactured in our workshops
  • Agitation defined depending on the product’s rheological characteristics (viscosity, density, texture)

STARTER CULTURE TANKS

With its decades of experience, GOAVEC Engineering has a presence in the majority of starter culture rooms in the cheese and dairy industry.

Product description :

  • Specific tanks enabling reconstitution of a medium to be ensured, as well as pasteurisation, cooling, and incubation of milk starter cultures after the cultures are introduced
  • Tanks with capacities normally ranging up to 10,000 litres are manufactured in our workshops
  • Operating conditions in accordance with customers’ needs: Atmospheric, ultra-clean conditions
  • Hanging agitation defined depending on the rheological characteristics of the products
  • Specific patented equipment and environment in order to ensure an aseptic environment for the starter culture tanks: Bactosas

Examples of treated products: Cheese and butter starter cultures, among others, …

BACTOSAS

The purpose of this equipment item, which was patented in 1988, is to ensure that the starter culture tanks have an aseptic environment.

It has become an alternative to white rooms in the agrofood, cosmetics and biotech industries.

MONOBLOCK AUTOMATIC CLEANING UNIT

Product description:

  • The NEP monoblock unit consists of a horizontal tank with several compartments :
    • 1 to 5 compartments
    • 1 to 6 lines
    • Compartment capacity of up to 5,000 litres
    • Steam or electric heating of the solutions
  • It is assembled and cabled in our workshops. Hydraulic and electrical tests validate its smooth running before delivery
  • A Siemens, Schneider, or Rockwell programmable automatic controller ensures the staging operations as well as the various cleaning cycles
  • An operator terminal enables management and parameterisation of the washing cycles
  • CNAO: A computer-assisted learning design utility ensures the NEP unit’s greater flexibility and limits the discharges from an environmental perspective

Examples of treated products: Melted cheese, enriching dry solids, etc …

Robostar

Product description:

Robostar is a multi-purpose machine dedicated to industries using batch processes.

  • Standard capacities: 60 l, 200 l, 500 l and 1,000 l
  • Operating conditions: 0.49 bar (Pressurised Equipment Directive variant: 3 bar)/vacuum
  • Various sorts of agitation are proposed depending on the characteristics desired in terms of mixing (keeping the substance homogeneous, liquid or paste-like mixes, heat exchange, emulsion, grinding, cuttering, dispersion of powders, etc.) and depending on the rheologies of the products to be treated (viscosity, density)
  • Process functions available :
    • Direct/indirect heating
    • Cooling
    • Pressurisation
    • Vacuum
    • Cleaning in place
    • Sterilisation in place
  • Manually-operated or automated process (acceptance procedures)

TURNKEY PROCESS INSTALLATION

Goavec Engineering designs and executes :

  • Pilot installations
  • Fixed and mobile CIP / SIP stations
  • Storage and distribution of raw materials
  • Pasteurisation / sterilisation skids
  • production installations (yoghurt, butter, cream, starter cultures, soft cheese, crystallisation installation, whey treatment, etc.) linked to our processes tanks
  • Storage and distribution of finished products up to the packaging machines
  • The electrical and automatic controller architectures

Examples of products processed by our teams:

  • Milk
  • Cream
  • Butter
  • Yoghurt
  • Cream
  • Ice cream
  • Fresh pasta
  • Whey
  • Starter cultures
  • Permeate
  • Retentate
  • Cheese
  • Cottage Cheese
  • Etc.